Converging identities
Subtitle: Blackness in the modern African diaspora
By: edited by Julius O. Adekunle, Hettie V. Williams
Series: African world series; Carolina Academic Press African world series
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Durham, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781611631371
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: African diaspora; Blacks; Race identity; Emigration and immigration; African diaspora in literature
Description: "Converging Identities is a volume of sixteen essays analyzing the issues of blackness and identity in the African Diaspora in global perspective, but focusing on the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Given the historical factors that prompted Africans to populate different parts of the world, the subject of blackness as a form of identity is relevant. In modern times, blackness and identity are popular subject matters in view of the historic election of U.S. President Barack Obama in 2008."--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. The modern African diaspora in global perspective --; title: Are you "Black" or "ethnic"? : the dichotomous framing of immigrant identity  -- Philip A. Kretsedemas; title: Blacks in France : a minority or a community?  -- Gado Alzouma; title: The comfort of Blackness : using cultural immersion to promote mental health  -- Barbara F. Streets; title: Envisioned communities : the African diaspora in and interwar race films  -- Cara Caddoo; title: The middleman speaks : race, citizenship, and labor in The beautiful things that heaven bears  -- Julie Iromuanya; title: Beyond racial myths, prejudices and stereotypes : deconstructing African/Black diaspora studies in a changing world  -- Okpeh Ochayi Okpeh; title: Part II. The modern African diaspora and Black identity --; title: Black like who? Race and the cosmopolitan self identity of Barack Obama  -- Hettie V. Williams; title: Black first, but not only : racial identity formation in a changing Black 'hood'  -- Barbara Combs; title: The African diaspora in the US : cultural clash and identity challenges  -- Julius O. Adekunle; title: The things they carried : knowledge and information transfers from West Africa to Low Country Georgia  -- Karen Bell; title: "Is the Negro like other people?" : race, religion, and the didactic oratory of Henry McNeal Turner  -- Andre E. Johnson; title: Part III. The Black diaspora in Latin American identity and culture --; title: From "pardo" and "preto" into negro : Blackness in contemporary Brazil  -- G. Reginald Daniel; title: Afrolatinidada online : Afro-Puerto Ricans and Afro-Dominicans constructing identity in cyberspace  -- Ashley D. Aaron; title: Louisiana creoles and latinidad : locating culture and community  -- Andrew Jolivette and Haruki Eda; title: Stereotypes of Afro-Peruvians through the media : the case of the Peruvian Blackface  -- Miguel Becerra; title: Afro-Mexican queen pageants : NGO's and the ethnicization of Blackness from Costa Chica, Oaxaca to Pasadena, CA -- Jorge Gonzalez.